Lofty Labs

Friday Afternoon Deploy: A Developer Podcast

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Episodes and show notes available at friday.hirelofty.com. An unapologetic show about the culture and chaos of software engineering from the makers and breakers of digital products at Lofty Labs. We build software with Python and Django, Ruby and Rails, Golang, whatever frontend framework we're forced to use because it's popular this month, and anything else to get the job done right. Then on Friday afternoons we have a beer and talk about our regrets on this show.

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Episodes

Do we really need mobile apps? 24.01.2020 1:04:14

Austin Hackett is new to the team at Lofty and joins us for an episode to talk about how much we hate mobile apps and other topics.

Listen to us listening to YouTube videos 19.01.2020 51:13

Not really, that's only 6 minutes of the show.

Browser power concentration and the most expensive computer you can buy 11.01.2020 53:52

It's a full house today with Tyrel, Blake, Casey, Willow, and Alan.

Stakeholder Management: Unplugging and Pushing Back 28.12.2019 1:02:24

Tyrel and Casey chat about managing client expectations and avoiding burnout.

We told Blake we were full stack JS to get him back on the show 21.12.2019 52:12

Blake Johnston is back to talk Vue, Ember and more.

Discovery and Terrible Software Analogies 13.12.2019 1:06:12

We talk about how our team does discovery on new projects, and the terrible analogies that get used to compare the pricing and process software development to other skilled trades.

We Take Listener Questions on Developer Education 06.12.2019 53:03

We take some questions from a listener on what our approach would be to developer education.

3 Devs and a Sales Guy talk D&D 01.12.2019 46:45

Alan, Tyrel, Casey and Jon get on a tangent about Dungeons and Dragons that never ends.

App Hospice w/ Brad Cantin 22.11.2019 1:09:23

Brad Cantin is a Software Architect for Malwarebytes and he joins us to chat about managing apps and products in long-term maintenance mode.

Company Rebrand Party w/ Meagan and Jon 15.11.2019 56:50

The company behind the show has changed its name from Lofty Labs to simply Lofty, and we're in party planning mode.

Lorem Ipsum, image generators, and other tools for lazy front end work 08.11.2019 51:09

Lorem Ipsum, Fill Murray, and our other favorite tools for pre-generating content when building and testing front-end applications.

One Year of FAD: A Retrospective Without the Product Owner Beating You. 01.11.2019 49:43

We've been making this show for a year and wanted to celebrate with some of our favorite moments!

Our Favorite Programming and non-Programming Subreddits 18.10.2019 54:14

We're talking Reddit and what we sub to, and also the fast food industry for some reason.

We're Back on Spotify so We Talk about Coding Music 11.10.2019 1:17:41

Alex, Blake, Tyrel, and Casey talk about what kind of music they listen to while slinging code.

It's Crunch Time 04.10.2019 50:48

Tyrel, Alan, and Casey are in the middle of a big push on a project deadline so we see how many PRs we can put up during the podcast. Alex watches from the distance and comfort of his cushy, low stress staff augmentation project.

Raw SQL and Regular Expressions in Django w/ Jeremy Welkley 27.09.2019 58:55

Jeremy Welkley is with us to defend his love of Raw SQL and Regular Expressions.

Friday Morning Deploy: Strange Loop Recap, Elm, and Graphql 20.09.2019 49:21

Tyrel recaps his adventures at Strangeloop / Elm Conf and the whole team experiences a dramatic conversion to GraphQL evangelism.

Regex and a Pile Of Sticks 13.09.2019 1:15:13

We're talking regex and Agile software development.

Busted Sprints w/ Patron Guest 06.09.2019 43:59

One of our Patrons, Wayman Bell, joins us to talk about Agile fails and broken sprint goals.

Patron's Request: War Stories 30.08.2019 1:22:01

As requested by one of our Patreon supporters, this week we're telling war stories of failed demos, service outages, and deleted databases.

Web Software Architecture Extravaganza 23.08.2019 1:13:56

Casey, Alan, and Alex talk through different architectures, from monoliths to microservices, in search of the perfect candidate.

Programming Vices w/ Blake Johnston 16.08.2019 1:18:54

On this week's episode Alex, Alan, Casey, and Blake talk about their vices when building applications.

Commerce on the Internet is Hard 09.08.2019 1:17:45

Tyrel is selling a car over the internet and his story takes some strange turns. Alan and Casey find some odd and admittedly contrived resonance in his experience with building eCommerce applications.

Pokemon Flow Control 02.08.2019 1:22:41

Alan, Alex and Casey chat flow control and structured concurrency.

blake run serve 27.07.2019 1:14:05

Blake is back! We cover a range of topics, including Alan's latest bash alias.